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Michael Jackson had the highest number of top hits at the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (9 songs). In addition, Jackson remained the longest at the top of the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the 1980s (27 weeks). Madonna ranked as the most successful female artist of the 1980s, with 7 songs and 15 weeks atop the chart.
August 20 "Don't Cry" Asia: 1 August 27 "King of Pain" The Police 4 September 24 "How Can I Refuse" Heart: 1 October 1 "King of Pain" The Police 1 October 8 "Suddenly Last Summer" The Motels: 2 October 22 "Love Is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar: 2 November 5 "Heart and Soul" Huey Lewis and the News: 1 November 12 "Love Is a Battlefield" Pat Benatar 2
2 May 31 "Live to Tell" Madonna: 3 June 21 "On My Own" Patti LaBelle and Michael McDonald: 2 July 5 "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)" Billy Ocean: 1 July 12 "Invisible Touch" Genesis: 3 August 2 "Glory of Love" Peter Cetera: 2 August 16 "Papa Don't Preach" Madonna 2 August 30 "Higher Love" Steve Winwood: 2 September 13 "Dancing on the ...
Some of which are still around today. The 1980s proved a difficult time for many 1960s-70s veterans, many of them unable or unwilling to adapt to current trends. Music icons such as Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and The Rolling Stones released albums that were often poor quality and critically panned as they attempted to grapple with the changing ...
Queen scored two #1 hits with "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" and "Another One Bites the Dust" in 1980. Kenny Rogers scored his first #1 hit with "Lady" in 1980. John Lennon (pictured in 1969) became the fourth solo act to have a number-one hit posthumously after he was murdered in December 1980 with "(Just Like) Starting Over", reaching #1 in 1980 and 1981.
Lost 80's Live is a collection of musical artists from the time period of the 1980s that perform a live concert. [1] The concert tour usually consists of 10 to 12 bands that span the music genres of new wave , synthpop , rock , pop and electronic music .
Hot Country Songs is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In 1980, 43 different singles topped the chart, then published under the title Hot Country Singles, in 52 issues of the magazine, based on playlists submitted by country music radio stations and sales reports ...
NOW 80s is a British free-to-air music television channel, focusing exclusively on playing music from the 1980s. The channel launched in its current form on 27 December 2016, initially as a temporary pop-up rebrand of Now Music, previously a contemporary pop channel.